The Oddest Book Title of the Year Prize goes to The Philosopher Fish.

In the narrowest win in the award’s history, the 2024 Bookseller’s Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year goes to The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire, a study of the mysterious and endangered fish, its eggs, and their significance by Richard Adams Carey. Congratulations to Carey and Brandeis […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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